[IRCServices Coding] Fw: [Coders] RFCs and nicknames (Re: NS LINK and NS SET PRIVATE)

[Finny Merrill]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Andrew Church wrote:

> >On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Andrew Church wrote:
> >
> >>      Yeah, I checked the other supported servers and noticed that they
> >> all support such nicks too... and to be honest I'm in full agreement with
> >> Stskeeps that that part of the RFC (among others) is out of date; I just
> >> wish there was something more up to date that everyone could agree on.
> >> (Is this where someone jumps in and says "if you want to get something
> >> done, do it yourself"?)
> >> 
> >>   --Andrew Church
> >>     achurch at achurch.org
> >>     http://achurch.org/
> >
> >Well, if you read the RFC
> >
> >
> >Because of IRC's scandanavian origin, the characters {}| are considered to 
> >be the lower case equivalents of the characters []\, respectively. This is 
> >a critical issue when determining the equivalence of two nicknames.
> >
> >
> >So the original ircd considered {}|[]\ to be "letters".
> 
>      *BZZZT* Nice try, thank you for playing.  To quote RFC1459:
> 
> <nick>    ::= <letter> { <letter> | <number> | <special> }
> <letter>  ::= 'a' ... 'z' | 'A' ... 'Z'
> <number>  ::= '0' ... '9'
> <special> ::= '-' | '[' | ']' | '\' | '`' | '^' | '{' | '}'
> 
>      In other words, a "letter" is really a letter from A to Z, and not one
> of []\{}|.  (It is true, however, that {}| and []\ were considered
> case-insensitively equivalent.)
> 

But in the finland alphabet, ae, slash-o, and the other thing ARE between 
A and Z :)